The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-06-10

week direct from Europe. They Win be EN-
ployed in the PittsbuTgh Plate Glass Works
near that town.
Lawrence Donovan. who Jumped from
the BrooklyD Bridge ard the Suspension
Bridge It Niagara Falls, 90 Sunday iAst,
jumped from London bridge into the
Thames. He refused to permit a collection
to be taken sp, saying the iUnp was merely
In honor OF the Queens jubilee. He Is-
tends to jump at an early day, Of tbs
Clifton suspension bridge at Bristol, the
highest bridge IN England
A monster procession in hopor OF Mr..
Sladstone was held at Swansea Wales, on
saturday last. Mr.. Gladstone with promi-
! nent Liberals Of Wales occupied q special
stand from which he reviewed tire parade.
One hundred thousand weIshmen- wearing
rosettes and bearing banners and accom-
panied by numerous bands marched past
the stand. a contingent from POnt- y-Pridd
headed the line. Cannons were fired and
the greatest enthusiasm prevailed.
-In.t the City Cosrt in Paducah. Ky, on
Tidsy las:, MoIlie Jackson, a white woman
was convicted OF vagrancy, and Judge
/ Thomas ordered that she be sold TO the
| highest bidder for thirty days. The sale
| will be made rs soon rs the advertisement
! shall have been issued. This is the irst
! judgment ever made In this section, but 1t
| is not without precedent In other places In
, Kentucky. Judge Thomas action has met
with great deal OF unfavoraole comment.
Anna Granger, coIored. of Wilmington,
! y. c.. while ridicuIing aid mocking another
woman who WAS singing a hYmn, felt a
! burning sensation Ia the palm of her hand,
and on looking at IL saw that THE Church
/ OF God" was inscribed in blood red capital
letters. She screamed, and all the co olored
I people in the DeighborbOod are greatly
excited. The suppositioD IS that she keeps
I her hand shut now SO a5 10 keep mortal
eyes from being blinded by the mysterious
letters.
Mrs Patterson, widow, OF Parsons,
/ Kansas, while out riding Friday evening
was thrown from her horse, her foot catching
In the stirrup and the horse taking fright
ran at a furious rate about a mile, dragging
Mrs. Patterson by the foot over bridges,
sidewalks and rocks, tearing and lacerating
her flesh and horribly maBeling her limbs
aud body. Her head Is fearfully pounded
and bruised, one eye beng torn completely
from her head. She has not regsined con-
sciousness and her death Is looked for at any
moment
Simon Nelson, OF Huron, Dak., slot
and killed Mrs. Shaw, her son, aged about
1 Is, and her sister, Miss Lyman. aged about
-, on Monday last. The trageuy vas RE
result of a contest over a tree claim. which
had been decided in favor of Mrs. Shaw.
Nelson also shot a man named Kiisey
through the body, fatally wOundiDs him.
/. Mr. Lyman. was with the party but escaped
By getting behind a team. After tine shoot
ing Nelson returned hoose and placing the
muZz!e Of his rife to bis temple, blew out
mis- own brains. The crime was committed
ABOUT twelve miles from that place.
-kI!ea Hammond. wealthy farmer Of
Walker county. Tenn, was visited By Ku-
/ klux a few nights ago Two weeks ago
I young Miss KiDdrick, belonging to q respect
ed family in the State, was assaulted by q
negro. He was captured and came near
being lynched. Hammond, 1t seems, did
not like Miss Kindrick, and started scandal
Gus reports. a band of masked men, fan
tastically attired. rode to Hammond's house
at midnight and whipped him. bucket OF
tar and a sack of feathers, which had evi-
IDENTIFY been intended for Hammond, were
: lounQ near the mouse.
Two mothers sat opposite each other
in a car on a Michigan Central train going
TO Toledo the other day. Each had a baby
about year old, and each baby came in
I for a share OF the admiration OF the passen-
| gers. This seemed to make the mothers
! jealous, and after thinking the matter over
for a while one of them leaned across the
aisle and said: 81 feel 1t my duty to tell
you to go into the car ahead with your child
as mine has the whooping cough" "Oh (!
| has il a? Thanks for your kindness, but
mine is all over the whoopIpg cough and is
DOW coming down with the measles. Per
haps you lad better go into the car behindr'
/ An inquest was held on Wednesday, at
| Pekin, Ill, on the body of John Lahart, who
was burned to death in the Mackinaw Gala
/ boose, set on fire. 1t Is thought. by Mackinaw
/ higL waymen to kill Lahart and prevent
! his appearance against them. Il was deveIo-
ped at the inquest that the calaboose In
! which Lahart perished had been saturs tee,
with coal oil previous to the FIRE. The priso
ners in the jail at Pekin against whom
Lahart was the principal witness are grow
ing uneasy over the developments and public
feeling which is growing against them.
Charles Green, of Mackinaw. has been added
to their number. He is suspected Of COM
plicity in the robbery of Lahart
"A young man named Handy. OF Fayette
county, eloped last Friday with the daugh-
ter of Farmer StameS. -Four brothers OF
Handy had previously married fou-
daughters of Stames, although the latter
| had objected to some OF the marriages
/ When he heard of his last SINGLE dan,hta,,s
/ eiopement he was very angry but after
thinking the matter over he said Hang IL.
II they want the whole family all right ;
I'll marry the old woman myself" He ac-
cordingly rode to the house az Mrs. Hamby.
whose husband died recently, proposed, was
accepted, AID the nuptial knot was soon
/ tied.
Two Seminoles were executed at the
| Seminole agencT, in the Indian Territory. a
| few days ago They were large fellows
and showed supreme Indifference 10 their
fate. After brief religious exercises they
each made short speech, dwelling upon
the crime and attributing 1t to a too free use
or liquor. When the death warrant WAS
read the murderers walked calmly to a
blanket stretched on the ground, where
they took leave OF their friends AID were
blindfolded. They then knelt, presenting
their hrests TO the Sheriff and lis deputy,